Lucas returns after a trip to Tampa, Florida for a Schizocast chat with Nathan, B.R and Phil the camera guy about his time stateside. Lucas shares his disappointment in the fact that no listeners attempted to a**a**inate him to take his place on the podcast, watching Brits experience US culture shock as he takes them shooting and bar crawling in Florida, the gang discusses gun range suicides and renting guns to foreign nationals. Lucas also shares his horror of visiting an ‘Irish bar’ that didn’t serve Whiskey, just Guinness in a plastic cup, how the Irish survive on the streets and much more!

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'Deanomania' Song Lucas mentions:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9n0_5p8XKo⁠

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DJ of CTHR LLC joins Nathan and B.R to discuss his time working in public education and College. The lads get into everything from the administrative bloat that prioritizes paying 'Vice Principals' over classroom equipment, how 'No Child Left Behind' has created a shocking lack of education quality, the lads ask DJ if he would send his children to public school after working within the public school system and much more!

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Check out our guest at:

https://www.instagram.com/CTHR.LLC/

https://www.cthrllc.com/

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Returning to our regular show, this week Guerilla Medic's J joins Nathan in person at the Crafts and Lore Leather Shop for a chat on all things medical and EMS. J talks training as a Navy Corpsman and the solid medical training he got from that, the surprisingly slow adoption of Tourniquets in the civilian world, keeping pressure on a bleeding scrotum, cutting Prince Albert piercings off of inmates and other ER nightmares and the importance of mental health amongst emergency service workers.

The lads also get into the surprisingly thin line between helping patients and violence in the ER, training SUT at the Small Unit Skills Challenge event (SUSC), how pandemic mandates threatened the ability to treat all patients equally and how some healthcare workers gathered to discuss underground alternatives. All that and much more!

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Check Out our guest on Instagram:

Special thanks to Crafts and Lore Leather Shop for hosting us:

https://craftandlore.com/

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Art and War continues with Part 2 of our two part mini-series ‘WARLORD’, as B.R investigates the recent controversy and allegations made concerning Mark, founder of the civilian training group, 'The Appalachian Ranger Association'. Part Two features three former ARA Rangers from a range of leadership positions within the organization. First up, a former squad leader discusses disciplinary rebuttals to Field Training Exercise (FTX) After Action Reports (AARs), a former XO working directly with Mark shares his thoughts on what happened to ARA donations, and the CO of RSTG Gold discusses Mark’s troubling ‘wannabe Warlord’ tendencies as the organization got bigger. All of that, and much more.

Links mentioned in this episode: 

Check Out Smokey of The State of Appalachia's Substack articles on Mark and the ARA below:

⁠https://thestateofappalachia.substack.com/p/the-man-behind-the-curtain⁠

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Art and War takes a slightly different tone today, as B.R investigates the recent controversy and allegations made concerning Mark, founder of the civilian training group, 'The Appalachian Ranger Association'. Mark had previously been a guest on the show on Episode 83. Due to mounting reports, allegations and evidence stacking up against the leadership of the group, we wanted to hear the other side of the story from former members of the ARA, without filter. Part One features two former ARA Rangers discussing Mark's culture of silencing dissent within the organization, hypocrisy, lack of leadership, poor risk assessment and planning and much more lead to it's seeming dissolution.

Stay tuned for the follow up, Part 2, next Sunday the 22nd of October, 2023.

Links mentioned in this episode: 

Check Out Smokey of The State of Appalachia's Substack articles on Mark and the ARA below:

https://thestateofappalachia.substack.com/p/the-man-behind-the-curtain

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On this week’s show: Mike Parks, Co-Founder of Agency Arms, joins B.R and Nathan for a chat. The lads get into Mike’s introduction to guns as the son of an LA cop, Mike’s own path through the USMC into LA Law Enforcement and how Agency Arms started off as a side gig, what the custom landscape looked like when they first started and how Glock has officially communicated with Agency, via suits.

Mike also gets into some LA cop stories, we discuss gun industry marketing in a heavily censored landscape, Nathan discusses how to sidestep certain social media AI firearm censorship algorithms, Mike shares some insight on the slowing gun and gear industry sales and advice for businesses and consumers in this rough economy. 

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Check out our guest:

https://www.instagram.com/agencyarms/

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In a somewhat focused Schizocast with Nathan, Lucas, B.R and Phil the camera guy. The lads talk the Canadian Parliament giving a Ukrainian veteran of the SS a standing ovation, the phenomenon of the War Thunder forums being a frequent hotbed for nerds in uniform leaking classified documents, new Cyberpunk content, entering the Halloween season and talk of live streaming a horror movie with the listeners, why Warhammer 40K is emerging as a meme in the gun community and Phil and Lucas get into the state of modern hardcore and metal music.

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This week, Kit Badger’s Ivan joins Paige. The pair discuss TSA’s crazy failure rate including totally missing a friend’s loaded 30 round magazine, Ivan talks his Marine Corps origins, getting out and racing through the desert in the Baja 1000,  the dangerous relationship with money that overseas contract work breeds, how Kit Badger started and making long term plans for doing what you love, taking ultimate responsibility for yourself and how change creates perspective and much more!

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Nathan and B.R sit down with our newest addition to the team: Phil the Camera Guy, and discuss the AWS get together in North Carolina. We talk about how every gun store employee has had a gun pointed at them, our impromptu Art and War range day, how transitioning to being in front of a camera has been weird, we talk future video plans, Whiteclaw fueled CQB practice, our new side project: Propaganda Proliferation Task Force (PP.TF) and much more!

Links mentioned in this episode: 

https://www.instagram.com/pp.taskforce/